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The International Sailing Federation is pleased to announce that Atlantis WeatherGear has been selected as the ISAF Race Officials Clothing Supplier. It is a partnership that will see Atlantis supplying ISAF’s race official team with a range of clothing and accessories for the next four years.

Gold Coast Australia has won Race 2 of the Clipper 11-12 Round the World Yacht Race from Madeira to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, crossing the finish line in Guanabara Bay today at 0407 local time (0707 UTC) after 19 days racing across the Atlantic Ocean.

In a highly tactical contest between the teams racing the ten 68-foot yachts, the crew of Gold Coast Australia emerged victorious. The pivotal moment in their first transatlantic race was their decision to take a route directly through the middle of the Cape Verde Islands, off the coast of Africa, utilising the funnel-like effect of the islands on the wind to catapult them through the centre of the archipelago and out the other side into a position of strength.

Whilst the volunteer crew were undergoing their weekly training exercise they were tasked by the coastguard to go to the aide of a female kayaker, who had become stuck in mud at low tide and having been there for four hours it was feared that she would become hyperthermic.

At 16.19hr on Tuesday 30th August 2011, four males were seen from the Lifeboat Station, on the outer breakwater of Seahouses Harbour, clinging to the navigation light. Larger breaking swells were breaking over the central part of the breakwater, and the tide was still rising. The four had no safe means of getting off the breakwater. Humber Coastguard Rescue Co-ordination Centre were informed and the Seahouses Inshore Lifeboat was paged for immediate launch.

Welcome to Yorkshire has been closing in on leader Gold Coast and is now in second place

CLIPPER 11-12
RACE 2: MADEIRA TO RIO DE JANEIRO
DAY 19

* Gold Coast Australia opens up lead in high octane conditions
* One mile separates De Lage Landen and Qingdao as duel commences
* Critical decisions being made on navigational tactics through oil and gas fields